Ernie Kovacs

“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.”

“Nothing in moderation.”

“It has been said that television is a triumph of equipment over people and that the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel and have room left over for a caraway seed.”

“Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well done.”

“I have a terrible memory. I never forget a thing.”

“I got a raw deal from my parents. They were both only children.”

“To be a true artist, you have to play the way you feel, not the way others think you should feel.”

“I was born in Trenton, New Jersey, which is a town that is not known for its glamour.”

“Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.”

“There's a great space between the cheap and the precious.”

“I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”